Volume 36; Issue 1

Journal of Latin American Studies

Volume 36; Issue 1

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[untitled]

Review by: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

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Review by: David Bushnell

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Review by: Jon Beasley-Murray

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Review by: Luis Ortega

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[untitled]

Review by: Gavin O'Toole

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Slave Economy and Society in Minas Gerais and São Paulo, Brazil in 1830

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein

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[untitled]

Review by: Richard Gott

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Roderick J. Barman, Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2002), pp. xiv+291, $60.00, $19.95 pb.

NARO, NANCY PRISCILLA

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Political Survival Strategies: Political Career Decisions in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Previous versions of this article were presented at the conference Brazilian Political Institutions in Comparative Perspective: The Role of Congress in Presidential System. Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 2829 May 2001; at the XXIII International Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington, DC, 68 Sept. 2001; and at the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), San Francisco, 1315 Sept. 2001. We are grateful to Laurence Whitehead, Mark Jones, Philip Keefer, David Samuels, Brook McNally and the three anonymous

LEONI, EDUARDO, PEREIRA, CARLOS, RENN, LCIO

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John Peeler, Building Democracy in Latin America (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 1998), pp. xv+239, 43.95, 15.95 pb.

VALENZUELA, J. SAMUEL

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Joseph L. Arbena and David G. LaFrance (eds.), Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002), pp. xxxi+241, $60.00, $19.95 pb.

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Lilia Ana Bertoni, Patriotas, cosmopolitas y nacionalistas: la construccin de la nacionalidad argentina a fines del siglo XIX (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Econmica, 2001), pp. 319, pb.

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Thomas L. Whigham, The Paraguayan War: Volume 1, Causes and Early Conduct (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), pp. xvii+520, 57.00, hb.

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Federico Finchelstein, Fascismo, liturgia e imaginario: el mito del General Uriburu y la Argentina nacionalista (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Econmica, 2002), pp. 159, pb.

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New Books Received February 2004

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Edmundo OGorman, Mexican National History and the Great American Dichotomy This commentary is a revised version of an essay previously published in Spanish as Edmundo OGorman y la historia nacional, in Signos histricos, no. 3 (June 2000), pp. 1128. The author is grateful to Josefina Z. Vzquez for her critical reflections on portions of this work and to Nicola Miller for her general encouragement.

HALE, CHARLES A.

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Slave Economy and Society in Minas Gerais and So Paulo, Brazil in 1830

LUNA, FRANCISCO VIDAL, KLEIN, HERBERT S.

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Helena Simonett, Banda: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001), pp. 384, $65.00, $19.95 pb.

PELLICER, SERGIO NAVARRETE

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Miguel Len-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagn: First Anthropologist, translated by Mauricio J. Mixco (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), pp. ix+324, $29.95, hb.

PIZZIGONI, CATERINA

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J. Demmers, A. E. Fernndez Jilberto and Barbara Hogenboom (eds.), Miraculous Metamorphoses: The Neoliberalization of Latin American Populism (London: Zed Books, 2001), pp. xvi+208, 49.95, 16.95 pb; $65.00, $27.50 pb.

PHILLIPS, NICOLA

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Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost (eds.), Politics in Latin America: The Power Game (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. xvi+542, 55.00, 24.99 pb.

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Joseph Welsh: A British Santanista (Mexico, 1832) The research for this study was made possible thanks to a research grant from the British Academy, a grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and a travel grant from the University of St Andrews. It has been written with fond memories of the six months I spent with my family, on research leave (JulyDec. 1999), in a house built on the Camino Antiguo a Coatepec, in a part of Xalapa that was once the very Rancho Buena Vista that belonged to Joseph Welsh. It was the realisation, whilst researching Santa Annas activities in Xalapa, in the Archivo Histrico Municipal del Honorable Ayuntamiento de Xalapa, that there had been another

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David Cahill, From Rebellion to Independence in the Andes: Soundings from Southern Peru, 17501830 (Amsterdam: Aksant, CEDLA Latin American Studies no. 89, 2002), pp. xiv+215, 25,00, pb.

PEREA, NATALIA SOBREVILLA

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David Carey, Jr., Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2001), pp. xv+385, $29 95, pb.

FISCHER, EDWARD F.

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Jos del Pozo, Historia de Amrica Latina y del Caribe, 18252001 (Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones, 2002), pp. 286, $12.70, pb.

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Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens, Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Gender (Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Rowman Littlefield, Inc., 2002), pp. xi+393, 20.95, pb.

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Thomas M. Whitmore and B. L. Turner II, Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. xviii+311, 75.00; $110.00, hb.

BRANNSTROM, CHRISTIAN

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Childrens Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions: A Case Study in Nicaragua The authors are grateful to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) which provided a grant for this research project and to the Centro de Informacin y Asesora en Salud (CISAS) which facilitated fieldwork in District VI between June 2000 and January 2002. We also wish to thank Hal Luft and Dan Dohan of the Institute of Health and Policy Studies, University of California (San Francisco), for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. The authors are also grateful for the comments of two anonymous JLAS reviewers.

MACLURE, RICHARD, SOTELO, MELVIN

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Stuart McCook, States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 17601940 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002), pp. xiv+201, $50.00, $22.95 pb.

BRANNSTROM, CHRISTIAN

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Simon Collier, Chile: The Making of a Republic, 18301865: Politics and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. xxi+271, 45.00; $65.00, hb.

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Karen Racine, Francisco de Miranda, a Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003), pp. xix+336, $65.00, $19.95 pb.

BUSHNELL, DAVID

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Mnica Quijada, Carmen Bernard and Arnd Schneider, Homogeneidad y nacin: con un estado de caso, Argentina, siglos XIX y XX (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas, 2000), pp. 260, pb.

SZUCHMAN, MARK D.

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Andrew J. Kirkendall, Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), pp. viii+269, 22.95, pb.

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James D. Henderson, Modernization in Colombia: The Laureano Gmez Years, 18891965 (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001), pp. xvii+508, $55.00, hb.

ABEL, CHRISTOPHER

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Jorge Duany, The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), pp. xv+341, $49.95, $19.95 pb.

SCHMIDT-NOWARA, CHRISTOPHER

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Chappell H. Lawson, Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico (Berkeley, CA, and London: University of California Press, 2002), pp. xiv+287, $19.95, pb.

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Front Matter

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[untitled]

Review by: Joseph Smith

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Those That Live by the Work of Their Hands: Labour, Ethnicity and Nation-State Formation in Nicaragua, 18501900 The author is grateful to Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Lowell Gudmundson for comments on an earlier draft of this article. Research for this study was supported by grants from IIE-Fulbright and the UCLA Latin American Center.

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[untitled]

Review by: Nancy Priscilla Naro

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[untitled]

Review by: Jeane DeLaney

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Joseph Welsh: A British Santanista (Mexico, 1832)

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Political Survival Strategies: Political Career Decisions in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

Eduardo Leoni, Carlos Pereira and Lúcio Rennó

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[untitled]

Review by: Christopher Abel

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[untitled]

Review by: Nicola Miller

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[untitled]

Review by: Brian Loveman

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Those That Live by the Work of Their Hands: Labour, Ethnicity and Nation-State Formation in Nicaragua, 1850-1900

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[untitled]

Review by: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

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[untitled]

Review by: Rory Miller

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Children's Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions: A Case Study in Nicaragua

Richard Maclure and Melvin Sotelo

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Back Matter

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[untitled]

Review by: Caterina Pizzigoni

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[untitled]

Review by: Julia Buxton

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[untitled]

Review by: Christian Brannstrom

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[untitled]

Review by: George Philip

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[untitled]

Review by: J. Samuel Valenzuela

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[untitled]

Review by: Nicola Phillips

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[untitled]

Review by: Mark D. Szuchman

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[untitled]

Review by: Charles R. Hale

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[untitled]

Review by: Soledad Loaeza

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[untitled]

Review by: Edward F. Fischer

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[untitled]

Review by: Sylvia Chant

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New Books Received

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Edmundo O'Gorman, Mexican National History and the 'Great American Dichotomy'

Charles A. Hale

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[untitled]

Review by: Christian Brannstrom

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[untitled]

Review by: Sergio Navarrete Pellicer

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Kevin J. Middlebrook (ed.), Party Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico: National and State-Level Analyses of the Partido Acción Nacional (La Jolla, CA: Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2001), pp. x+278, pb.

LOAEZA, SOLEDAD

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Roderic Ai Camp, Mexico's Mandarins: Crafting a Power Elite for the Twenty-First Century (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2002), pp. xi+308, $54.95, $21.95 pb; £37.95, £15.95 pb.

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Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson (eds.), Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2003), pp. vi+294, $50.00, $22.95 pb.

HALE, CHARLES R.

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Hernando Calvo Ospina, Bacardi: The Hidden War (London: Pluto Press, 2002), pp. xvi+127, £40.00, £10.99 pb.

BEASLEY-MURRAY, JON

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Roderic Ai Camp, Mexico's Mandarins: Crafting a Power Elite for the Twenty-First Century (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2002), pp. xi+308, $54.95, $21.95 pb; £37.95, £15.95 pb.

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